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On Wednesday evening, Chairman William Edgar Borah of the Senate's potent
Foreign Relations Committee had dinner alone with President Hoover. On
Thursday Premier Laval arrived from France for White House
"discussions." Through an "oversight," Senator Borah's invitation to
the White House dinner that night did not arrive until 6:30 p. m. On
Friday afternoon the first of the Hoover-Laval discussions got
underway. Simultaneously, a dozen agreeably surprised French newspaper
correspondents and some 30 U. S. newshawks were ushered into the big
meeting room of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate Office...